I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.

How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.

God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.

I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

He who tampers with the currency robs labour of its bread.

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.

Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.